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Jake Hiller

Project Development Analyst

Work

Jake Hiller is the Project Development Analyst for Environmental Defense Fund’s Corporate Partnerships Program. In this role, Jake works with the Director of Strategy and a diverse set of project managers to identify market opportunities, engage business leaders, and forge new corporate partnerships with the scale and impact to transform the sustainability of entire industries.

Key Projects

EDF Climate Corps: Designed and piloted new assessment tool to measure
organizational barriers to energy efficiency in EDF Climate Corps companies. Leveraging emerging data, the growing company network and
new academic partnerships to implement systemic corporate energy management
strategy in large corporations.

Green Returns: Developed environmental benchmarking tool for portfolio
companies owned by leading private equity partners in the Green Returns program. Assessing key opportunities around energy, water
and waste reduction in The Carlyle Group.

Background

Jake has previously worked at the University of South
Carolina’s Graduate Science Research Center, the Princeton Chemistry Department
and the U.S. Department of Energy. His independent work at Princeton focused on
developing new varieties of organic electronic materials for applications in
transistors and photovoltaics.

In 2010, Jake won the Princeton TigerLaunch Business Plan
Competition and became a semi-finalist in the MIT Clean Energy Prize
Competition for his team’s efforts to bring scalable sustainable energy
technologies to communities in the developing world.